Side-bar vehicle



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SIDE BAR VEHICLE.

Patented July '7, 1885.

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SIDE-BAR VEl-HCLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,537, dated July 7, 1835.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELISE-A Daron, of Skinner's Eddy, in the county of \Vyoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Side- Bar 'Wagons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is applicable to both high and low sidebar wagons or vehicles; and it consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of the parts or gearing which give an elastic support to the body and connect it with the axles and the axles and headblock together, substantially as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to combine durability with simplicity of construction, do away with the usual liability to get out oforder, and give an easier riding action than is attainable by the ordinary side springs by making it impossible for one spring to settle without lowering the other. My invention also dispenses with the usual perches, perohplates and bolts, and wooden springbar, thus cheapcning the construction, and has other advantages, as will be hereinafter specified.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of the runninggear of a side-bar wagon embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 a vertical longitudinal section of the same on the irregular line as x in Fig. 1. i A A are the front and rear axles; B, the head-block, and O O the partiallyelliptic many-leaved metallic side springs connecting the head-block with the rear axle.

D, D, and D are rods or diagonal and straight braces connecting the rear and front axles and head -bloelr with a central cross piece or plate, E, the brace D, which occupies a central longitudinal position, inclining upward in a backward direction, connecting, as by bolts Z) c, the front axle and head-block with the cross-piece E, the front axle being free to turn on the bolt b, while the other braces, D D, which incline upward in a forward direction, converge from the outer ends of the rear axle, to which they are secured by clips (Z d to the center portion of the crosspiecc E, where they are attached by a jointbolt, 6, and coupling f to said cross-piece, on which the springs O G, that carry on their upper sides springbars or body-rests G G, are secured and rest. The ends of the springs G O are rigidly seen red to the rear axle and headbloclc, which will cause said axle and block to roll as the springs bend, and the one spring cannot bend without the other.

The wagon-body rests G G, which are of spring metal, serve the double purpose both of springbars and bodyaests. Consequently they dispense with the usual body-loops used with wooden springbars; also, with a series of clips and bolts, the body being secured to the iron spring-bars or body-rests by bolts.

H H are ornamental or finishing tips on the ends of the springs G C. These tips serve to hold the two bottom leaves of the springs in place, and are constructed with pockets on their inner ends, as at g, to receive the ends of said leaves of the springs within them and to admit of the tips being secured by screws h, inserted through them and into the upper one of the two lower leaves of the springs. The ends of the springs O G are similarly secured to the head-block and rear axle or axle-tree, respectively, by clips in applied to the bedleaf of each spring, and composed in part of bolts 70, having countersunk heads. The spring-bars or body-rests G G may also be secured to the springs in part by bolts land in part by clips on each side of said bolts, which bolts likewise serve to hold the leaves of the springs together in their center, while the clips used in connection with them may be made to hold the rub-irons in place.

When the body of the vehicle is heavily loaded, it will settle between the springs at either end, thereby avoiding all interference with its perfect working. By giving more or less eurvatu re to the springsG O the gear may be readily adapted to both high and low vehicles, and it will make a convenient construction for both open and to buggies or vehicles.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, in a spring, of two leaves of about equal length, one upon the other and secured together centrally, and a tip having a pocketin its end fitted to receive the ends of both leaves at once, and means for securing the said tip to one of the leaves, sub stantially as shown and described, whereby the two leaves are positively clamped together with freedom for longitudinal motion between them.

2. The combination of a carriageaxle, a pair of side springs having two leaves, one upon the other and of about equal length, the lower leaf placed directly across the top of the axle, a clip for the axle, the bolts whereof pass countersunk flush into the said leaf, the upper leaf resting directly thereon, and a clamp receiving the ends of both leaves and securing them together, substantially as shown and dethrough the said lower leaf, their heads being scribed.

ELISH A DEPUE.

VVi tn esses:

JOHN T. HILLTS, D. E. DAVIES. 

